Night Skies
Dawn
Assassin Bug on Sunflower
Somewhere in Nowhere
Dusk
Moon at 98.8% full of itself
Somewhere In Nowhere
Category: Planets
Harvest Moon In Whipped Cream Clouds
Harvest Moon at 99.8% full rising through the clouds last night.
The Harvest Moon and Mars at 6:00 am this morning.
Services In A TUFF SHED®
White Oaks, New Mexico doesn’t need no stinking cathedral or post-bank-style building for worship services. A TUFF SHED® with a steeple does just fine.
A colorful cacti in the churchyard, and a second TUFF SHED® used for fellowship hall.
The Harvest Moon rising last night with Saturn peeking through the clouds on the right. Saturn in the center photo. The Harvest Moon shining through the clouds.
There was lightning to the north last night. Saturn and its moons in plaid. The Harvest moon finally rose above the clouds.
Line Of Trucks
Line of trucks in Carrizozo, New Mexico.
Right up the center of the photo is Orion, Mars, and the Pleiades. To the right of Orion’s belt is Betelgeuse.
The Pleiades
9:30, 1:30, 5:30
9:30 pm last night. Jupiter is in the lower left of the photo, and Saturn is close to the right edge of the photo.
Jupiter and four moons at 9:30 pm last night.
The sky straight overhead at 9:30 pm last night. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Jupiter and three of its moons at 1:30 am this morning. I woke up and 1:30 am and remembered I had left the drip systems on, so I got up and turned off the drip system and photographed Jupiter. I forgot my iPhone, so I didn’t get any wide-angle photos of the sky at 1:30 am.
The sky looking east at 5:30 am this morning. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Jupiter with three of its moons at 5:30 am this morning. It’s interesting how the moons change positions through the night.
The sky straight overhead at 5:30 am this morning. You can see the Pleiades and Mars in the upper right side of the photo. Click on the image to enlarge it.
The clouds at sunset this evening.
Stone House On The Prairie
Here’s a close-up of the stone house in the landscape on Friday’s post.
Night sky at 2:00 am. The Pleiades is in the lower center and Mars is below the Pleiades. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Jupiter and four of its moons. The sky was clear last night, but I could not get Jupiter’s stripes, and the photos of Saturn were blobs. There must have been an atmospheric disturbance obscuring clear shots of the planets.
Sliver Moon In Pink
More Mantis Madness
Moon, Mars & The Pleiades
There was an alignment of the moon, Mars, and the Pleiades this morning, but the thin cloud cover almost blocked out Mars and the Pleiades in the shots where the moon has details. Click on the photos to see more details.
Dawn
Jupiter with four moons and deep space
Crap
Down by the river where we like to go
Walked a coyote wouldn’t you know
He stopped and he squatted and gave it a squeeze
Not a care in the world he was quite pleased
Off Center & Not Even 